Green Pond Marsh
Green Pond Marsh is characterized by a large open field with 2-3 depressions that collect water during most of the year, becoming dry sometimes during summer months. It is fed periodically by a nearby permanent, six acre pond that lies across the rural road from the Green Pond Marsh area. The fields are planted with corn and left fallow during winter and spring. Thickets adjacent to fields and pond attract wet thicket birds, including occasional Rusty Blackbird. The Green Pond Marsh is a premiere site for wetland birds in eastern Pennsylvania with large numbers of shorebirds and waterfowl using the shallow pools for stopover on migration with numbers of shorebirds exceeding 100 individuals often.
Habitat
Wetlands, a hydrologist’s brief study shows characteristic hydric soils (see Long Description). The site is characterized by a permanent pond edged in trees and thickets, adjacent to a large shallow marshy field with perhaps one quarter with shallow pools and the rest in cornfield and stubble. Some wet thickets adjacent to permanent pond and fields attract songbirds for stopover and nesting.
Birds in This Area
American Avocet
Latin: Recurvirostra americana

Barn Swallow
Latin: Hirundo rustica

- Bufflehead
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Sandhill Crane
- Tundra Swan
- American Bittern
- Belted Kingfisher
- Canada Goose
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Gray Catbird
- Iceland Gull
- Northern Flicker
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Savannah Sparrow
- Turkey Vulture
- American Black Duck
- Black Tern
- Carolina Chickadee
- Downy Woodpecker
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Indigo Bunting
- Northern Harrier
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Scarlet Tanager
- Warbling Vireo
- American Coot
- Black Vulture
- Carolina Wren
- Dunlin
- Great Blue Heron
- Killdeer
- Northern Mockingbird
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Semipalmated Plover
- White Ibis
- American Crow
- Black-bellied Plover
- Caspian Tern
- Eastern Bluebird
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Least Flycatcher
- Northern Parula
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- American Goldfinch
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Cattle Egret
- Eastern Kingbird
- Great Egret
- Least Sandpiper
- Northern Pintail
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- White-crowned Sparrow
- American Kestrel
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Cedar Waxwing
- Eastern Phoebe
- Great Horned Owl
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- American Pipit
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Chimney Swift
- Eastern Towhee
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Lesser Scaup
- Northern Shoveler
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Snow Goose
- White-throated Sparrow
- American Redstart
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Chipping Sparrow
- House Sparrow
- Northern Cardinal
- Purple Gallinule
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Northern Waterthrush
- Ring-billed Gull
- Snowy Egret
- Wild Turkey
- American Robin
- Blue Jay
- Cliff Swallow
- European Starling
- Green Heron
- Little Blue Heron
- Orchard Oriole
- Ring-necked Duck
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Wilson's Phalarope
- American Tree Sparrow
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Common Grackle
- Field Sparrow
- Green-winged Teal
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Osprey
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Song Sparrow
- Wilson's Snipe
- American Wigeon
- Blue-winged Teal
- Common Loon
- Fish Crow
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Mallard
- Palm Warbler
- Ross's Goose
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Wood Duck
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Bobolink
- Common Nighthawk
- Forster's Tern
- Herring Gull
- Mississippi Kite
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Yellow Warbler
- Bald Eagle
- Bonaparte's Gull
- Common Raven
- Gadwall
- Hooded Merganser
- Mourning Dove
- Peregrine Falcon
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Swamp Sparrow
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Baltimore Oriole
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Common Yellowthroat
- Glaucous Gull
- Horned Lark
- Mute Swan
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Ruddy Duck
- Tree Swallow
- Bank Swallow
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Cooper's Hawk
- Glossy Ibis
- House Finch
- Nashville Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Rusty Blackbird
- Tufted Titmouse
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